Metal Gear Series/Big Boss Era

This is a timeline of fictional events that took place in the Metal Gear series, as well as fictional and non-fictional events that are referred to in the series. This timeline only covers canonical games and does not include side-stories or unofficial sequels.

July: US President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.

Granin, who is jealous of Sokolov, gives his prototype designs of Metal Gear to his friend, Hal Emmerich's grandfather, in the USA. Metal Gear requires technology that doesn't exist at this current time.

August:

Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

Realizing at last the urgency of the threat that the Soviets May cause with Sokolov in their hands, the CIA forms a plan to recapture Sokolov. They dispatch the covert FOX unit to Sokolov's research facility, located to the south of the great Soviet fortress of Groznyj Grad.[1]

Tselinoyarsk Incident:

August 24: Virtuous Mission (takes place in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater). Jack is given the codename "Naked Snake".[1]

August 24 - August 29: Naked Snake is asleep for several days in hospital due to his injuries caused by The Boss. Para-medic visits him while he is asleep.

August 29: The White House receives an unexpected call from the Soviet's Chairman Khrushchev. He accuses the US of being responsible for the attack on the OKB-754 Design Bureau and threatens them with a nuclear attack on the US if the US Government can't prove their innocence. President Johnson places the blame on The Boss. The government declares The Boss to be a traitor to the country and plan on sending her former disciple Jack to kill her.[1]

August 29 - August 30: Naked Snake is asleep for several days in hospital due to his injuries caused by The Boss. Para-medic visits him while he is asleep. After Naked Snake wakes up, members of the top brass' inquiry interrogate him with many questions regarding The Boss' defection. Major Zero visits Naked Snake and gives him a briefing on Operation Snake Eater.[1]

Big Boss offers his combat services in Asia, Africa, and the Middle and Far East. In the Vietnam War, he participates in the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) as an "unofficial soldier" attached to a team of Green Berets and US Army Ranger units. His skills earn him the "Legendary Soldier" moniker.

Frank Jaegar, now a young soldier under the name "Frank Hunter", is assigned a mission in Rhodesia during the Civil War. There he kills Naomi's parents, near the Zambezi River in Rhodesia, but can't bring himself to kill her too. He feels so bad that he decides to take her with him. Frank takes care of her, shares his rations with her and helps her survive during the war. He begins raising her like she is his own blood to soothe his guilty conscience. Naomi begins looking up to Frank as an older brother.[3] Rhodesian Civil War ends that same year, when Rhodesia is renamed to "Zimbabwe".

Big Boss participates in several regional conflicts and race liberation wars. He is heralded as a true hero and makes the front covers of popular magazines in many countries.

Zanzibar Province formed as a minor self-rule domain included in the USSR. It is a region surrounded by Pakistan, USSR, China and Afghanistan.

Kio Marv becomes famous as a computer games maniac. He subscribes many games he makes himself to various magazines, and is regarded as a splendid game designer.

McDonnel Miller serves as a survival master in SAS, the Green Beret Squad, and US Marine boot camp. He also serves as a drill sergeant in FOXHOUND, and is referred to as a 'Hell Master'. Draftees call him "Master Miller" with respect.

The scientific community estimate there to be about 100,000 types of proteins in an individual. Based on Crick's original theory on genes, this estimate reveals that there are about 100,000 genes in an individual.

April 26: Nastasha Romaneko and her family are showered by the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in Prypiat (a city 3 kilometres north of Chernobyl).

October: USSR begins limited retreat from Afghanistan.

Meryl Silverburgh born as the officially recognized daughter of Matt Campbell. She is actually the biological daughter of Roy Campbell (Matt's older brother), conceived from an affair with Matt's wife.[3][6]

USSR military forces including 500,000 personnel, 6 tank legions and other troops are cut.

SINF total abandoning is completed.

USA-USSR diplomatic ministers conference is held in Wyoming.

The separation between negotiations over START and SDI is prevailed to the public.

Peace between Iraq and Iran.

Democracy movement widespread in various Eastern European areas.

Malta conference is held.

Berlin Wall is torn down.

Democracy fever all over Eastern European nations.

The amount of asylum-seekers and refugees flowing into capitalism societies increase.

Voyager 2 re-approaches Neptune, and leaves solar system.

December 24: Liberian Civil War begins in Liberia.

December: Solidus Snake starts training Jack as a mercenary in the Liberian Civil War. Jack begins fighting for Solidus as a child soldier in his "Army of the Devil" as part of the "small boys unit".[7]

Emma Emmerich-Danziger (Emma Emmerich / E.E) born in the US. She later becomes Hal Emmerich's step-sister.

Frank Jaeger earns the title of "Fox", the highest honor for a member of FOXHOUND. Frank is given the codename "Gray Fox".[8]

Zanzibar Province's opposition toward the former regime of the USSR rises in the early 1990s, with the Baltic provinces and similar crises serving as a detonating cause.

The Patriots spread false information about the Y2K bug, later misleading the world into thinking it's a threat. Backdoor programs hidden in worldwide distributed software plants the seeds for the coming S3 Program.[7]

Liquid Snake works for the British Special Force SAS to destroy the mobile SCUD missile launchers during the Gulf War. During the mission he becomes a POW (Prisoner Of War) of Iraq and is declared a MIA (Missing In Action).[3]

Solid Snake infiltrates western Iraq during the Gulf War with a platoon of Green Berets.[3]